弁論大会 「武道を通じての人間形成」オリガ ストレリチェンコ Olga Strelchenko “Character Building by Budo” Japanese speech Contest

6 June 2019 最優秀賞 speech contest first prize “My intentions: character building by Japanese budo” “My name is Olga , I am from Russia . I just recently became 26 years old and exactly half of my life I have been practicing Japanese traditional martial art - kendo. When I was 13, I felt interest towards Japanese culture and decided to start practicing some Japanese traditional sport . So in order to choose I searched in internet and at first I found popular in Russia judo , however I didn’t feel close to i